Serpents

Serpents · Heading 1809; source lines 20080–20089 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

To dream of serpents, is indicative of cultivated morbidity and depressed surroundings. There is usually a disappointment after this dream. See Snakes and Reptiles.

Snakes · Heading 1867; source lines 20677–20751 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

For a woman to dream that a dead snake is biting her, foretells she will suffer from malice of a pretended friend.

To dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages.

To see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles with fortune and remorse.

To kill them, you will feel that you have used every opportunity of advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others. You will enjoy victory over enemies.

To walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish persons will seek to usurp your place in your companion's life.

If they bite you, you will succumb to evil influences, and enemies will injure your business.

To dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs, and you quickly step aside as it passes you, and after you had forgotten the incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions as it nears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent; if you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack, and altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon imagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on from bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase to frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves to a normal basis, and by the putting aside of imaginary trouble, and masterfully shouldering duties, you will be contented and repaid.

To dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you, is a sign that you will be placed in a position where you will be powerless in the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness.

To handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition.

To see hairs turn into snakes, foretells that seeming insignificant incidents will make distressing cares for you.

If snakes turn into unnatural shapes, you will have troubles which will be dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power.

To see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes that there will be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated.

To see them bite others, foretells that some friend will be injured and criticised by you.

To see little snakes, denotes you will entertain persons with friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work to overthrow your growing prospects.

To see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be nonplussed to distinguish your friends from your enemies. For a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head, and she hears the snake's hisses, foretells that she will be persuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good, but she will find out later that she has been inveigled into an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her. To see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind your friend, denotes that you will discover a conspiracy which has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself. To think your friend has them under control, denotes that some powerful agency will be employed in your favor to ward off evil influences.

For a woman to hypnotize a snake, denotes your rights will be assailed, but you will be protected by law and influential friends. See Serpents and Reptiles.

Snake · Heading 737; source line 4601 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

To dream of snakes is a sign of an enemy, or that some one is slandering you; it also denotes quarrels and angry disputes: if an engaged young lady dreams of them, she had better ascertain positively whether her lover is all right before she marries him.

Serpent · Dream section, heading 462; source lines 1695–1700 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

To dream you see a serpent turning and winding himself, signifies danger and imprisonment. It denotes also sickness and hatred. To dream you kill a serpent, is a sign that you will overcome your enemies. To dream of beating serpents is very good, and if a serpent approaching near to do you harm, but does it not, it is a sign that some ill woman shall be disappointed in her designs.

Snakes · Dream section, heading 488; source lines 1795–1799 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

To dream you see snakes and serpents, shows that you will be imprisoned, and encounter many dangers. If you are in love, your sweetheart will be false; to dream you kill a snake, shows you will overcome difficulties and enemies and be successful in love, trade or farming, but unsuccessful at sea.

Snake · Dream section, heading 392; source lines 4809–4812 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

Denotes treason, and is a caution to be careful whom you trust.

Snake, Serpent · Dream section, heading 218; source lines 4086–4088 · Text transcription

Source originale (anglais)

Bad luck, sickness, short life.

Note de la source (anglais)

The source heading “Snake, Serpent” is shown on the Snakes page: book of Luck "Snake, Serpent" heading

Serpents · Dreams interpreted, passage 7; source lines 130–131 · Text transcription

Titre d'origine dans la source : (no printed heading)

Source originale (anglais)

To dream you are stung or bitten by serpents or insects, denotes mischief to come from malicious and private enemies.

Note de la source (anglais)

The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Serpents” because that is the subject of its first clause.

Serpents · Dreams interpreted, passage 61; source lines 287–288 · Text transcription

Titre d'origine dans la source : (no printed heading)

Source originale (anglais)

To dream you are bit by a serpent, signifies some danger will befal you by secret and subtile enemies.

Note de la source (anglais)

The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Serpents” because that is the subject of its first clause.

Serpent · Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11842–11853 · OCR transcription

Source originale (anglais)

A dream of temptation and of evil (Gypsy). Obviously the dream interpreters of modern times have accepted the Christian and Jewish symbolism, rather than that of more remote antiquity. Freud and Jung, however, revert to more primitive times and interpret this as an erotic dream. Raphael interprets the serpent dream as one of "a deadly enemy bent on your ruin; to kill one denotes success over your enemy." The serpent was the ancient Egyptian symbol of wisdom and of the sun; curled in a circle it represented time without end; twisted around a staff, it denoted health. "More subtle thou art than any beast of the field" (Bible).

Snake · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11964–11965 · OCR transcription

Source originale (anglais)

See Serpent.